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A least 15 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups of Jubo League in Nagarkanda upazila on Saturday evening.

A half-day hatal called by Islami Chhatra Shibir protesting the killing of one of its leaders in Dhaka was observed peacefully in the district Sunday.

DHAKA – Senior Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed on Saturday said the main opposition BNP celebrates the birthday of its leader on August 15, the National Mourning Day, because they emerged on the day on the bloods of Bangabandhu Sheikh…

DHAKA – Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami will stage demonstration throughout the country on today demanding the release of 18-party leaders including top Jamaat leaders, restoration of caretaker government and protesting the “government conspiracy” to eliminate the party.

BNP standing committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah on Friday accused the government of crafting an ‘evil design’ to promulgate a state of emergency in its last-ditch effort to hang onto power.

Minister without portfolio Suranjit Sengupta on Friday said the Foreign Ministry’s failure to bring back the condemned killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and execute them is unforgivable.

A group of miscreants murdered Law Affairs Secretary of district unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and its General Secretary of Ward No- 16 unit Shahin Alam here last night, police sources said.

Police arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami and an activist of the party from Baghri village in Rajapur upazila of the district on Wednesday.

Local unit of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student body of Jamaat-e-Islami, on Thursday called a half-day hartal in the district for Sunday protesting the death of Khalilur Rahman, 88-ward unit president of the capital.

At least 30 people were injured in a clash between two factions of Awami League over supremacy at Sonatandi village under Saltha upazila of the district.

At least 13 people, two among them policemen, were injured in two separate clashes between police, Jamaat-Shibir men and Awami League activists in Sadar Dhakshin Upazila during today’s (Wednesday) hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islam.

Police arrested 10 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir in four upazilas of the district on charge of creating trouble during today’s (Wednesday) hartal called by Jamaat.

Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday criticised the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami for enforcing a 48-hour hartal just after the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays, saying it is nothing but a 48-hour non-stop public sufferings. 

At least 50 people were injured in a sporadic clash between activists of Awami League and BNP at Gopinathpur village in Raipura upazila on Monday.

CHUADANGA: The local administration on Sunday imposed section 144 at Bhangbaria village in Alamdanga upazila to avert an imminent clash between two groups of BNP convened separate programmes at the same venue and time.

Naogaon – The local administration has imposed section 144 in Mahadebpur upazila for today (Sunday) as the local BNP and Awami League called separate meetings at the same venue and time.

CHANDPUR: Communication Minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday observed that popularity of any political party can have ups and downs.

Bagerhat – At least 30 people were injured in a clash between activists of Awami League and BNP at Mikhait village in Sadar upazila on Saturday afternoon.

Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif has proposed –- in a veiled challenge — that BNP start their own campaign to publicise their achievements, if any.

Dhaka – Awami League central working committee member Engineer Mosharraf Hossain has been made a presidium member of the party.

Plainclothes police arrested Jamaat assistant secretary general Prof Miah Golam Parwar at the Khulna Jail gate on Tuesday immediately after his release from the prison.   

Police arrested an upazila level ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and an activist of the party from Kakilakura area in Sribardi upazila of the district on Monday night.

Police on Sunday night arrested a local leader of BNP and another leader of its student associate body Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal at Chandidasgati village in Sadar upazila.

Police arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami from Khansama upazila headquarters on Sunday.

The people have already ‘decided to reject’ the incumbent government in the forthcoming national elections, says the BNP.

Jamaat-e-Islami activists and the members of its student front, the Islami Chhatra Shibir, have set fire to a microbus at capital Dhaka’s Jatrabari.

Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Hanif on Saturday said BNP’s threat to enforce non-stop hartal and blockade programmes after Eid has proved that the main opposition does not want the trial of war crimes.

Gono Front on Saturday called upon all quarters to boycott corrupt people in the forthcoming general elections and get united to turn Bangladesh a welfare state.

Two rival factions of BNP clashed in Babuganj upazila of Barisal over holding iftar party at same venue Friday.